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Old sailor in permanent dry dock.

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A Bitter Wind (Billy Boyle World War II #20) To solve a murder at an English airbase, US Army Captai…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Billy’s early swagger returns after books where one worries for our hero. Greed and death at every turn. Also, a new angel of death enters the cast, where in earlier novels she was the ingenue that had to be rescued and protected.

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www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Excellent review as we enter a new great power competition. Reviewing the progress before the Soviet Union collapsed and all the free training disappeared, result in atrophied skills as we enter competition with quieter submarines with longer range weapons.

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The Admiral’s Bookshelfβ€”if you were wondering

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www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... Book collections are idiosyncratic reflecting the interests of the individual reader. In this book he ties twenty-five recommended books to senior leadership traits he has tried to live up to. He admits both his successes and failures. Enjoy.

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Victory '45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders On the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, two…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... If Vice President Vance is right that all wars end in negotiations, the negotiations that ended the Second World War which were not always between victor and vanquished. This book is also a reminder of what the democracies have to lose.

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Fox local is reporting it now.

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I live within 30 miles of the Academy and there is no local news coverage of this report. Normally the local news would be blasting this all over the airwaves. Crickets, I suspect a scam/fake news.

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Naval Power in Action: Seizing the Initiative in the Ne… Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... CAPT Sadler’s follow-on to β€œU.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century” and Project 2025 work. His issues must be addressed and solutions need further discussion. His solutions require investments that counter Trump’s cuts and alienation of friends and allies.

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Battle Mountain (Joe Pickett, #25) Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is back in this rivetin…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... B: Good shoot-em-up, pick your favorite conspiracy theory and it might be here. Deep State, right wing militias, PTSD crazed vets, sinister FBI agents out to arrest any miscreant they create. Have fun.

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The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonder… In the second volume of the landmark American Revolutio…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... When the world seems upside down, recalling the founders struggles of seems particularly appropriate. As Ukraine seems at its nadir, it is appropriate to remember the colonies nadir and the value of our allies who helped create this nation.

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Nightshade: A Novel (A Catalina Novel, 1) #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly i…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... B: Good start to Connelly’s new Catalina series. Stilwell reminds me of a new version of Bosch.

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170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.

Me on the factually misleading and analytically ridiculous misconduct complaint DOJ has filed against Chief Judge Boasbergβ€”and the dangerousness of DOJ so openly trying to undermine public confidence in the only institution that has been even partially effective at checking the Trump administration:

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Return to Sender (Walt Longmire, #21) Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Fros…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... B: Average entry in this series, amusing in places. Johnson almost lost me when he had Longmire wandering in the desert quoting Shelley.

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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warf… The epic story of how America turned the world economy …

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... Outstanding book; an in-depth analysis of the history of economic warfare over the past thirty years or so. As with any kind of warfare, it is better to fight with allies and the US has been quite successful when working with allies based on trust.

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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unma… A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that r…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... Blackhawk’s history is from different assumptions than the European mindset. One gets to understand the president’s attitude toward treaties as the U.S. repeatedly agree to terms and abrogate them when it suits.

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Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents From renowned biographerΒ­Β­Β­ Nigel Hamilton, author of t…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... Excellent, it looks at the the Civil War as they manage or mismanage their respective causes until Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Each studiously avoiding slavery. Lincoln comes over as a reluctant savior. Davis is the reluctant leader.

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You Never Know: A Memoir There are many miles from the business school and baske…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/44... Lots of stock phrases he either took from or to his screen persona. Not much after the end of the Magnum years; he does discuss the parallels between it and Blue Bloods. Perhaps he is saving those for another book.

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Cloven Hooved Horned Satan sitting in a library reading books to kids   since we can't do drag storytime anymore....i thought we'd try something else

Cloven Hooved Horned Satan sitting in a library reading books to kids since we can't do drag storytime anymore....i thought we'd try something else

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DOGED!

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First Family: Abigail and John Adams The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of "Fou…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/83... AB: Second time we’ve listened to this on a road trip. Well worth it, particularly in this era of national internecine strife. Stay close to your partner, but also be willing to forgive your foes. That may be tough with those that seem to be filled with hate.

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Planning for War at Sea: 400 Years of Great Power Compe… How have navies contemplated possible enemies? How did …

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... The book is a study of β€œthe best laid plans” going awry. Excellent review of naval planning history and issues facing the U.S., Russia, and China today. It recommends a red team to test the assumptions the nation and the Navy are using in planning for the future.

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Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome Acclaimed World War II historian James Holland vividly …

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... B: Excellent follow-up to Savage Storm. The US didn’t win WWII by our selves. Italy was a multi-national force. It mproved my impression of Clark and Alexander; diminishing Field Marshall Kesselring. It’s good to fight alongside allies, as opposed to with them.

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Brewery is selling a 'Presidential Pack' to supply Canadians with enough beer to last Trump's entire term Moosehead Breweries said it's now selling the "Presidential Pack," of 1,461 cans of its Canadian Lagers, one for every day of Trump's remaining term.

Moosehead Breweries said it's now selling the "Presidential Pack," of 1,461 cans of its Canadian Lagers, one for every day of Trump's remaining term.

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Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reache… For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of th…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... EB: Short stories of varying quality, some plot twists I figured out before I reached the punch line. No Jack NMN Reacher in any of the stories.

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At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump Whi… A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. M…

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... McMaster was in a year long Kobiashi Maru scenario. More than at war with ourselves, Trump found himself at war with himself, a conflict with his rational policy making was opposed by his β€œgut” reactions. He could not resolve that dialectic, Hegelian not Marxist

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I’m as confused by this almost as much as the wi-fi features of my dishwasher.

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